When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 

~ Desiderius Erasmus, philosopher, humanist, and theologian (28 Oct 1466-1536) 

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. 

~ Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989) 

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (21 Oct 1772-1834)

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing thing. 

~ Henry Miller.

If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius. 

~ Michelangelo

No man's credit is as good as his money. 

~ John Dewey, philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (20 Oct 1859-1952) 

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. 

~ Lewis Mumford, writer and philosopher (19 Oct 1895-1990) 

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

~ Henry Miller.

Who, being loved, is poor ? 

~ Oscar Wilde, writer (16 Oct 1854-1900) 

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. 

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900) 

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. 

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (14 Aug 1890-1969) 

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

~ Rumi 

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. 

~ Alice Childress, playwright, author, and actor (12 Oct 1916-1994) 

We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. 

~ John W. Gardner, author and leader (8 Oct, 1912-2002) 

Writing is thinking on paper. 

~ William Zinsser, writer and editor (7 Oct 1922-2015) 

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. 

~ George H. Lorimer, editor (6 Oct 1867-1937) 

Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world. 

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author (b. 5 Oct 1958)

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. 

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948) 

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. 

~ Truman Capote, author (30 Sep 1924-1984)